Tag: Mathieu Amalric

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, dir. Wes Anderson)

An aged hotelier recounts his life story. If Keaton and Kubrick ever teamed up to make a deadpan farce prequel to The Shining, then this’d be it. Beautiful to look it, gorgeously designed and presented, with a cast in depth happy to help out. Lots of fun, basically, with Ralph Fiennes on fine form.

Here’s the trailer.

Oxygen [AKA Oxygène / O2] (2021, dir. Alexandre Aja)

A woman wakes inside a futuristic sealed pod: she is running out of air. Like a near-future spin on Buried, this works hard to maximise its single location conceit and ticking clock/real time elements. A series of escalating problems and pressures well-handled, and a resolution that plays fair.

Here’s the trailer.